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Should We Play A♮ or A♯ in Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata, Opus 106?
- Notes
- Music Library Association
- Volume 68, Number 4, June 2012
- pp. 751-757
- 10.1353/not.2012.0079
- Article
- Additional Information
One hundred and eighty-five years after Beethoven’s death there is still a question as to whether to play an Ainline-graphic 02i] or A[inline-graphic 01i] in measures 224–26 of the first movement of Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata, op. 106. Hans von Bülow’s reading of an A[inline-graphic 02i] has been repeated in numerous editions, although musicological evidence points to Beethoven’s intention of A[inline-graphic 01i]. The author presents six arguments in favor of the latter.